The flu was so bad last week in NY, it was the worst since the state started recording the data 14 years ago. Over the past week, 7,779 laboratory confirmed influenza cases were reported in NY state, and 1,759 New Yorkers have been hospitalized with confirmed influenza. [Full Article...]

Macaques, being much closer to us, could give a better indication as to whether or not new drugs would be effective in humans . Dolly died from a progressive lung disease five months before her seventh birthday in 2003. "The SCNT procedure is rather delicate, so the faster you do it, the less damage to the egg you have, and Dr. Liu (a colleague) has a green thumb for doing this", Poo said. [Full Article...]

The team analysed the studies to explore how much the risk of coronary heart disease or stroke increased for those smoking on average one cigarette a day, five a day or 20 a day, compared with those who had never smoked. Women who smoke one cigarette daily have a 57% higher risk for heart disease and 31% higher risk for stroke than women who never smoke. They warned smokers to stop smoking com... [Full Article...]

In the county crimes where violence was used against a person rose above national trends at 29 per cent, robberies increased 18 per cent, and sexual offences rose seven per cent. It said the Crime Survey for England and Wales showed the amounts of criminal damage and most types of theft were similar to or lower than the previous years, and 80% of adults told the survey they had not experienced any... [Full Article...]

There were some protests in the cities but the shows were running smoothly and there was huge rush of people to watch the film in Lucknow and other cities. He alleged that a dream sequence between the characters of Alauddin Khilji and Rani Padmavati existed in the controversial film, which, he said, was "intolerable". [Full Article...]

We know what we're going to do. "If this was on my left hand, I could care less, but just based on where it was, we had to deal with it". "You can't be right defensively, is the philosophy there". All-time, NY has played the Patriots just 12 times since 1970. And for the Eagles, he created a version of Philadelphia's true signature sandwich. [Full Article...]

These exchange rate movements cost Diageo GBP5.0 million in pretax profit and GBP208.0 million in sales, it said. Diageo said cash flow continued to be strong and in line with past year, with net cash from operating activities at £1.2 billion and free cash flow at £1 billion. [Full Article...]

Prominent protesting group Karni Sena denied having any role in the attacks on the school bus. However, it will be good if some theatres don't run the movie. "People are coming and watching it", he said. Gurgaon Police PRO Ravinder Kumar told PTI: "The school bus staffer asked the kids to crawl under seats for safety and directed the driver to not stop it". [Full Article...]